R Observatory: Metrics for mousetrap version 3.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mousetrap

3.2.3Package record

Process and Analyze Mouse-Tracking Data

0packages dependsuggested by 1

10.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pascal J. KieslichCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Mouse-tracking, the analysis of mouse movements in computerized experiments, is a method that is becoming increasingly popular in the cognitive sciences. The mousetrap package offers functions for importing, preprocessing, analyzing, aggregating, and visualizing mouse-tracking data. An introduction into mouse-tracking analyses using mousetrap can be found in Wulff, Kieslich, Henninger, Haslbeck, & Schulte-Mecklenbeck (2023) doi:10.31234/osf.io/v685r (preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/v685r).

Changes in 3.2.3

Internal changes

Added link to online documentation in package description
Improved efficiency of heatmap examples

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("mousetrap", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("pascalkieslich/mousetrap")

Development version from pascalkieslich/mousetrap. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-mousetrap

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-mousetrap

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-mousetrap

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.2.3

READMEYes · 315 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.2.3Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 58 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%41 run in a plain check · 8 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 98%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 84%
Help pages citing references: 38%

How these are measured

Downloads

10.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,523 · ~29/day · ~872/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

65330 days

1.9K90 days

10.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on382 r2u8 autocran128 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

pascalkieslich/mousetrap ↗Account: PascalKieslich

55Stars

16Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

15Releases

561Commits

7Commit identities

mouse-trackingranalysisvisualizationclustering

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 561 commits · Last activity 2026-01-09 · +1.9% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.2.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.2.3 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 12

Stars over time

2025-10-21 · 492026-09-29 · 55

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pascalkieslich/mousetrap on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-09

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mousetrap adds 41 packages (24 with compiled code, 43 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, fields 3.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (20)

utilsstatspracma dplyr tidyr magrittrgraphicsgrDevicesggplot2 scales psych Rcpp diptest RColorBrewer cstab fastclusterparallelfields rlang lifecycle

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

readbulk testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

ssddata

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Pascal J. Kieslich

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2016)

Author

Author

Author

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Pascal J.

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 3.2.3

Dirk U.

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 3.2.3

Jonas M. B.

no longer listed · 3.0.0 to 3.2.3

Releases (15)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-01-19
3.2.3Latest
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2024-01-19 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-01-10
issues were not corrected in time
3.2.2
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2023-10-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.2.1
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2022-01-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
mt_space_normalize

added 1 export
mt_exclude_finish
3.2.0
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2021-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mt_length_normalize
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
3.1.5
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2020-08-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.1.4
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2019-12-05 · diff ↗
3.1.3
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2019-10-04 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
3.1.2
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2019-02-02 · diff ↗
3.1.1
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2018-07-06 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
3.1.0
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2017-05-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
bezier, mt_animate, mt_diffmap, mt_heatmap, mt_heatmap_ggplot, mt_heatmap_raw, mt_scale_trajectories
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
3.0.0
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2017-02-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
mt_calculate_derivatives, mt_calculate_deviations, mt_calculate_measures, mt_movement_angle, read_mousetracker

added 12 exports
mt_add_trajectory, mt_align, mt_align_start_end, mt_angles, mt_bind, mt_cluster, mt_cluster_k, mt_count, mt_distmat, mt_map, mt_spatialize, read_mt
2.0.0
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2016-10-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
mt_id, mt_variable_labels

added 6 exports
mt_add_variables, mt_derivatives, mt_deviations, mt_export_long, mt_export_wide, mt_measures
1.2.0
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2016-07-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
mt_align_start, mt_calculate_deviations
1.1.0
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2016-06-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.0
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2016-03-19
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-19
Total releases: 15 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 1.0 MB / 5 files
Download size: 1.2 MB

Appears in task views

Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data Processing and Analysis of Tracking Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("mousetrap")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.31234/osf.io/v685r.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mousetrap version 3.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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